<p>This may seem like an obvious question but I just thought I’d ask anyway. I am a pretty experienced singer but am most likely going to major in theater and dance at a LAC while getting voice lessons and music classes at a conservatory. When I get out college, I want to audition for musical theater. I was just wondering if you are at a disadvantage if casting directors or whomever see that you didn’t come from a musical theater program? All of this of course assuming that you are at the same talent level as those who did. Will they look past you because of where you went to school?</p>
<p>I’m guessing that the disadvantages are very few, JBS… so many wonderful actors start with a BA from an LAC. And whatever they might be they may well be balanced by advantages of a wider world view, etc.</p>
<p>I agree. There are advantages with the big name schools, of course, but probably not so much when you go further down the list. By the time you get way down the list I’m pretty sure you could do just as well designing a program that works that works for you with lessons and an LAC. I know a very talented girl who picked her LAC because they do 5 musicals a year and have always wondered if that was as silly as it sounded to me at the time.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any disadvantage in the end, other than maybe some connections that might come from certain schools/instructors. Once you get into an audition they only care about your audition-not where you went to school. We know several actors who have been very successful in MT with no degree, or a degree in a non-related field-in one case an engineering major who has been very successful in general and has appeared on Broadway.</p>
<p>I agree with the others. If you’re right for a part, a casting director really is going to care less where you went to school, or what you went to school for.</p>